The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. — I. A. R. Wylie Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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